CollegeHumor’s new YouTube Red series pokes fun at all things Internet

Reporter’s note: This is part of a series featuring each new original show or movie debuting on YouTube Red. The subscription streaming service’s first slate of originals launched in February.

LOS ANGELES — Imagine a future where YouTubers fight to their deaths, “good old fashioned conversations” means two people silently texting each other and a person’s place in society is determined by a Buzzfeed quiz.

That’s the dystopian backdrop of CollegeHumor’s hilarious but dark new YouTube red series, Bad Internet, which launches on Wednesday.

The goal of the new 10-episode weekly series is to parody technological innovations and Internet phenomenons that dominate people’s daily lives. …